Twitter can be a dirty place during the MLB non-waiver trade deadline. Just ask Hunter Pence.

As trade winds swirled around the Giants’ right fielder, some idiotic clever fans decided to make Pence squirm. The plot: Create a fake movement by simultaneously tweeting messages congratulating Pence for being traded to the Red Sox.

Jameson Fleming from Eye on Baseball was the first to catch wind of the meticulously orchestrated conspiracy.

Here’s how it started:

Ok, 1130pm we all start tweeting Hunter Pence to congratulate him on the trade to Boston.